The Origin of Ancient American Cultures
Author | : Paul Shao |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9780813812885 |
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Author | : Paul Shao |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9780813812885 |
Author | : Iowa State University Research Foundation Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1983-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780840330499 |
Author | : Paul R. Cheesman |
Publisher | : Cedar Fort |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Packages |
Publisher | : Packages |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2008-02-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780785818342 |
Tracing the development of ancient civilizations of the pre-Columbian Americas, this is a fascinating account of how these civilizations culminated in the magnificent empires of the Aztecs and Incas.
Author | : Dennis J. Stanford |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520275780 |
"Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea and introduced the distinctive stone tools of the Clovis culture. Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge that narrative. Their hypothesis places the technological antecedents of Clovis technology in Europe, with the culture of Solutrean people in France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago, and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought."--Back cover.
Author | : Gary R. Varner |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1430310731 |
Folklorist Gary R. Varner takes a lengthy look at various myths, legends and beliefs of Native Americans in this book. Included are stories and archaeological finds from various lands that suggest cultural contacts between explorers from China, Japan, the Mediterranean and Europe with Native Americans in pre-Columbian times. Native American folklore and myths are examined including the universal legends of the flood and stories of the mysterious god-men such as Quetzalcoatl, Votan and Chinigchinix, who brought the arts, technology and civilization to indigenous cultures. Mysteries of Native American Myth and Religion is a fact-filled, yet fascinating story of the original inhabitants of North and South America. Varner has written several books on folklore and mythology and is a member of the American Folklore Society and the Foundation for Mythological Studies.
Author | : Bruce G. Trigger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Eskimos |
ISBN | : 9780521344401 |
Publisher description: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan. The chapters covering the prehistory of Mesoamerica offer explanations for the rise and fall of the Classic Maya, the Olmec, and the Aztec, giving multiple interpretations of debated topics, such as the nature of Olmec culture. Through specific discussions of the native peoples of the different regions of Mexico, the chapters on the period since the arrival of the Europeans address the themes of contact, exchange, transfer, survivals, continuities, resistance, and the emergence of modern nationalism and the nation-state.
Author | : Tim McNeese |
Publisher | : Milliken Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0787734098 |
This packet provides a detailed and richly illustrated overview of the lives of the first Americans. Styles of shelter, modes of travel and transport, tribal beliefs, habits, practices, and the unique structures of various tribal societies are discussed. Challenging review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. A map, test, answer key, and extensive bibliography are included.
Author | : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807013145 |
New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Author | : Robert M. Carmack |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2016-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317346793 |
The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situations of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions from the development of Mesoamerican Civilization through 20th century and their influence in the world community. For courses on Mesoamerica (Middle America) taught in departments of anthropology, history, and Latin American Studies.